Prose •
Penelope Aubin –
A Collection of Entertaining Histories and Novels •
John Campbell –
The Travels and Adventures of Edward Bevan, Esq., formerly a merchant in London •
Elizabeth Carter • ''Examination of Mr. Pope's Essay on Man'' (translation of
De Crousaz's ''Examen de l'essai de Monsieur Pope sur l'homme'') • ''Sir Isaac Newton's Philosophy Explain'd for the Use of Ladies'' (translation of
Algarotti's
Newtonianismo per le donne) •
Philip Doddridge –
The Family Expositor •
Richard Glover –
London •
David Hume (anonymously) –
A Treatise of Human Nature (issued late 1738 but dated this year) •
William Law –
The Grounds and Reasons of Christian Regeneration •
John Mottley (as Elijah Jenkins) – ''
Joe Miller's Jests; or, the Wits Vade-Mecum'' •
Robert Nugent (attributed) –
An Epistle to Sir Robert Walpole •
John Oldmixon –
The History of England during the Reigns of Henry VIII, Edward VI, Queen Mary, Queen Elizabeth •
Laetitia Pilkington –
The Statues •
Samuel Richardson – ''Aesop's Fables'' •
Elizabeth Singer Rowe –
Miscellaneous Works •
Thomas Sheridan –
The Satires of Juvenal Translated •
Joseph Trapp –
The Nature, Folly, Sin, and Danger, of Being Righteous Over-much (against
George Whitefield) •
Voltaire •
De la Gloire, ou entretien avec un Chinois •
Conseils a M. Helvetius •
Isaac Watts –
The World to Come •
George Whitefield – ''A Continuation of the Reverend Mr. Whitefield's Journal'' •
Paul Whitehead –
Manners Drama •
Daniel Bellamy –
Miscellanies in Prose and Verse •
Henry Brooke –
Gustavus Vasa • Anthony Brown –
The Fatal Retirement •
Henry Carey –
Nancy (opera) •
Thomas Cooke –
The Mournful Nuptials (not acted) •
David Mallet –
Mustapha • James Miller –
An Hospital for Fools • Edward Phillips –
Britons, Strike Home •
William Shirley –
The Parricide •
James Thomson –
Edward and Eleonora Poetry •
Moses Browne –
Poems •
Mary Collier – ''The Woman's Labour: an epistle to Mr
Stephen Duck'' •
Mikhail Lomonosov –
Ode on the Taking of Khotin from the Turks •
Robert Nugent •
An Ode on Mr. Pulteney •
An Ode, to His Royal Highness on His Birthday •
Odes and Epistles •
Jonathan Swift –
Verses on the Death of Dr. Swift •
John Wesley –
Hymns and Sacred Poems ==Births==